It’s All About the Moisture!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there!

It’s been a nice Mother’s Day so far across Central Alabama with warm and muggy, but dry conditions across the area.

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Temperatures were held back a bit during the morning by heavier clouds, but those clouds have eroded, allowing a nice field of puffy cumulus clouds to develop in the low level moisture. You can see that in the top left panel of the graphic above. Readings will top out in the middle 80s generally across the I-20 corridor, with some upper 80s to the south.

Regional radar mosaics are starting to show a rash developing from the Florida Panhandle through southwestern Alabama and across much of the state of Mississippi. The convective showers are in the deeper moisture axis that extends across this area. You can see that clearly in the larger panel of the graphic if you click and enlarge it.

It means that these showers and the storms that some of them will grow to become will be mainly over western Alabama this afternoon. Can’t rule out a stray one over the rest of the area, but when it comes to more numerous storms, it’s all about the moisture.

TONIGHT: You can expect partly cloudy skies as the heating of the day disappears allowing the showers to dissipate. Lows will be in the middle 70s.

MONDAY: Tomorrow will feature increasing high pressure, but warm and humid conditions will prevail. A few isolated storms will develop, but the chance you will find you is only around 1 in 5. Highs tomorrow will be a couple of degrees warmer that those of today.

SEVERE WEATHER TODAY: Severe weather is expected across a wide area today from Madison WI and Chicago to Kansas City and Abilene, with an enhanced area across southwestern Iowa, southeastern Nebraska and Central Kansas. A powerful upper trough is approaching the region from the west today with a surface low near Des Moines. Thunderstorms are active along the warm front over eastern Iowa with severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings having already been posted and tornado watches are in effect. The best chance for tornadoes today will extend from Omaha to Des Moines.

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